The Power of Proximity: Improve Your Recording With Distance

When I first started out in recording, I remember instantly going for the bass knob and cranking it up to try and get that huge radio voice sound. It didn’t take long to learn how terrible that technique sounded. Today we’re diving into the proximity effect and how you can use it to get that amazing, rich, radio broadcast sound in your voice recordings.

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Proximity Effect

A build up of bass and low frequencies that occur when you are close to a dynamic directional — cardioid in this example — microphone

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